Call for Papers

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are increasingly widespread throughout the technology sector. As large engineering organizations adopt CI/CD they are often met with scalability challenges. What works for small teams has not proven to work for large teams. This workshop invites practitioners and academics to come together and informally discuss the challenges and opportunities in build, test, and release automation. Submission format is an abstract or extended abstract to give a 20 minute presentation with time for questions during the workshop. Following the presentations, a moderated round table discussion will be held on top of mind challenges in CI/CD and common themes that have emerged from in the discussion.

Academics: present your work to a receptive audience of industrial practitioners.

Practitioners: present your problems, share solutions, and connect with others working in this critical field.

Workshop Format

This workshop is held as part of ICST 2026 and is a in-person event.

Agenda:

• Presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions)
• Panel Discussion

CCIW 2026 requires all presentations to be in-person. We strongly encourage submissions to include deep insights from hands-on practice and interactive to include discussions to facilitate a lively exchange of ideas among the attendees.

Submission Format

Submissions can be of one of the following types:

• extended abstracts (max. 1000 words)
• short papers (4+1 pages)

All contributions must conform to the IEEE conference pro- ceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceed- ings Formatting Guidelines: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates

Short papers must not exceed four pages plus one page for references. Given the brevity of the abstracts, the PC may feel it needs more details during the selection process. If so, a PC Chair will contact the author asking for clarifications or elaborations and provide those back to the reviewers.

Topics of Interest

include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Large Scale Continuous Integration and/or Continuous Delivery
• Flaky Tests and Non-Determinism
• Managing Flaky Tests in CI/CD
• CI/CD for Machine Learning Systems
• CI/CD for hybrid and multi-cloud
• Key Metrics for CI
• CI Dashboard
• Test Selection for CI
• Mutation Testing for CI
• Test Result Prediction
• CI/CD Maturity Models
• Security Measures for CI/CD
• CI/CD for Kubernetes
• Future Evolution of CI/CD
• Move beyond PASS or FAIL (in the context of CI)
• Optimization Techniques for CI/CD
• Automatic Recovery for Build and Test Breakages
• Multi Environment Deployment with CI/CD
• Culprit Finding and Fault Localization (in the context of CI)
• Prevention of Breakages in the trunk/main branch
• Emergency Response using CI/CD
• Using CI/CD with a Monorepo
• Using CI/CD with Many Small Collaborating Repositories
• Version Management in CI/CD
• Dependency Management and Upgrades with CI/CD
• Applying AI/ML to CI/CD Automation
• Resource Management in CI/CD